Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Olonets
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Olonets
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
Русский
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Russki
German Name
Kasachisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Kazahks
Russians
Origin
17th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Turkic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
kaza1248
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Kazakh and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Kazakh and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kazakh and Russian language. Kazakh word for "Hello" is Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Kazakh Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kazakh vs Russian Difficulty
The Kazakh vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kazakh Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Kazakh and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kazakh and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kazakh is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.